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Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost — September 24, 2023

You will likely be preaching the parable of the workers in the vineyard to a congregation of hardworking, rule-following people, writes Philip Gladden. This parable will offend them. What are we to make of it?

Matthew 20:1-16
Year A 

"I wonder what happened the next day!" my friend commented after we discussed Matthew's parable over lunch. He is the owner of a successful business with approximately 140 hourly workers. I asked him two questions: Could you pay your employees as the landowner in the parable paid his workers? What do you think would happen at your business? He said he could pay his employees however he chose, but following the...

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